Sofiyivka created Count Potocki as a sign of his love for his wife Sofia Witt. But the story was such that this sign of love was saved with minor changes to our times. And the joy of tourists, as its romantic history origin, and preserved the beauty of landscape art of the late 18th early 19th centuries. Park is a park Sofiyivka landscape or English style in the making, which used elements of Greek mythology. As is typical for this style parks, emphasizes the primitive nature of Sofiyivka before man. When you create Sophievka managed successfully to use the original topography, supplemented by a number of artificial lakes, cliffs, caves and waterfalls, which were perfect harmony with the surrounding nature. The original decision was the construction of an underground river, which appears to the visitor as one of the wonders of nature, to repeat which is beyond the power of man. The architect of the park, a Polish artillery officer Capt.
L. Metzel, used to create motifs of the individual parts of the poems of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey." These motifs are evident in the use of at the design of the park to be a hero these works and architectural styles typical of the era. Park is divided into six zones: North, Central, Western, Eastern and Southern. Each zone is characterized as its landscaping and decoration. Calling card is a fountain Sophievka "Snake" is located in the middle of the "Lower Lake" in the central part of the park. Initially, the water just beat a hole in the stone, and later on stone sculpture was installed in bronze serpent poured an unknown master.
The height of the fountain is 12 to 16 meters making a lasting impression on visitors. In Sofievka widely used element of unpredictability and surprise. A visitor can not imagine what to expect for the next turn lane. Sofiyivka considered to be the brightest pearl of landscape art in Ukraine.